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Aug 29, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Kevin Foster |Arts Highlights
‘Film critic’ rather undersells the breadth and depth of David Thomson’s engagement with the medium. A distinguished historian, biographer, novelist, and encyclopedist of film, he has also made documentaries, written screenplays, and been a respected judge on the international film festival circuit. He is widely regarded as the greatest living writer on film.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Kevin Foster
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
fox8live.com | Kevin Foster
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The man taken into custody as part of multi-state search for a missing Texas girl remains in custody and has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, East Baton Rouge Parish jail records show. Ariel Anderson, 26, is scheduled to appear before a Baton Rouge district judge for his first appearance Wednesday afternoon. District Judge Nicole Robinson will hear the case.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
shawlocal.com | Kevin Foster
My wife Julie is a nurse. More than that actually. Her name tag reads “Julianne, BSN, RN Supervisor Nursing/Patient Care Ambulatory Services.” She is employed by OSF Healthcare. It is necessary to divulge that information before I continue. I’m fairly certain my opinion will come across as biased. There is no way around that. The recent disclosure by OSF to build a new hospital in Ottawa while shifting some of their long-standing services to Peru came as a shock to everyone, including me.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
knoe.com | Kevin Foster
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The criminal case against Walter Brister IV is moving forward after a grand jury was called to consider felony hit-and-run and negligent homicide charges against him last month. Brister’s case has spent nearly two years in limbo after police arrested him in October of 2022 for allegedly running over and killing a man on Burbank Drive and then leaving the scene. That man, Jude Jarreau, was walking along Burbank Drive near Ben Hur Road after an LSU game, police said.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | David McBride |David Mcbride |Kevin Foster |Sean Turnell |Nick Hordern
ABR’s annual double issue is packed with summer-reading features. To complement our Books of the Year feature (December issue), Australia’s top arts critics nominate 2023’s outstanding productions. Kevin Foster doesn’t pull his punches on David McBride’s whistleblower memoir, Emma Dortins reviews Kate Fullagar’s innovative biography of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip, and Frank Bongiorno considers Raimond Gaita’s tangle with life’s big questions.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
afr.com | Kevin Foster
OpinionPolicyForeign Affairs & SecurityJusticeIt is a rich irony that McBride’s efforts to protect Australian soldiers from persecution led to the discovery of credible evidence that rogue elements among them killed dozens of innocent civilians. Kevin FosterFeb 9, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSometimes, for the faithful, it doesn’t do to look too closely into the life of your chosen idol.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Kevin Foster |Arts Highlights
Diplomat and musician Fred Smith’s memoir of his time with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) at Kabul airport, and later in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), processing Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, opens with a richly symbolic vignette. On his first visit to the North Gate, one of only three public entry points to Kabul airport, Smith is confronted by a nightmare vision of the country’s collapse.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
argusmedia.com | Kevin Foster
An error has occured. The article you are searching for was not found. Published date: 09 October 2023 Crude futures rose by 4pc in early trading on Monday, supported by concerns over wider fallout from Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas' large-scale attack on Israel. The front-month December Ice Brent contract rose by as much as 4.2pc to a high of $88.15/bl when markets opened in Asia, up by $3.57/bl from its settlement on 6 October.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
the-sun.com | Kevin Foster
IT’S the call every Home Minister dreads to receive. People are missing in the channel and have been for some hours. I remember receiving one in 2021 when dozens were missing, with hopes they were still alive fading. We all hope there will not be another tragedy after the latest loss of life, but if the deadly business of smuggling people across the Channel in flimsy boats continues it is inevitable there will be.
